The Locations
"Richmond"
English version: Jan 3, 2025
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Buildings And Locations For Richmond, VA
Ballroom, Spootwood Hotel, Richmond
Jefferson Davis's Presidential Office, Richmond
"The White House of the Confederacy"
Bildings And Locations For Richmond, VA
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Bent's house in Richmond, VA |
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Movie: House of Elkanah Bent in
The George Eveleigh House at Church Street was unoccupied at the time of the filming. Therefore it was fitting backdrop for the distressed times as well as a disguise für Bent's luuxurious lifestyle. Erected originally in 1743, it anticipates principles of the following centiry with it's asymetrical floor plan and a stairwell running up all floors. This house wal sold not before the year 2008 by 4.2 Mio. Dollars.
39 Church Street Google Maps
The filmings also took place in the rooms of the house:
Movie: parlor Real: parlor, with original furnutire
Film: parlor, fireplace Real: parlor, fireplace
Location Overview "Bent's house, Richmond"
Below: ground floor with entrance, veranda, hall, parlor (lower left), back room (upper left). Above: upper floor (partly) with stairs and bedroom.
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Spootswood Hotel, Richmond, VA, entrance and foyer |
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Arriving scene at "Spotswood Hotel", Richmond, VA. It was filmed outside of and inside the foyer of Dock Street Theater, 135 Chirch Street, Charleston, SC (for the building see also on Charleston). Also, the scenes with Greene's courtesy to Virgilia in Philadelphia and the opening for the scene in Detective Haller's office in Richmond was filmed here.
Church Street with Dock Street Theater Google Maps
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Spotswood Hotel, ball room
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Spootswood Hotel, Richmond, VA, ball room |
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Movie: in the ball room Real: Old Exchange, Great Hall
Movie: in the ball room Real: Old Exchange, Great Hall
Scenes at the President's ball in the ball room of "Spotswood Hotel", Richmond, VA. It was filmed in the "Great Hall", Old Exchange Building, 122 East Bay Street, Charleston, SC.
The historical building, in full name called "Old Exchange Building & Provost Dungeon" was built starting in 1768 to promote the heavy and for the wealth of the city of Charleston so important sea trade. Construction was finied by 1771 with cepps in the basement to detain people who disturbed public order.
In the changing history of the city and of this building, you would findet influencal planter Isaac Hayne, a man fallen into disgrace in England and then grown to wealth in America. After closure of the War of Independence in 1780, Hayne opposed openly against the once more occupation of Charleston by the British, was taken into custody, locked up in tne cellar of the "Exchange Building" and finally executed on July 31st, 1781.
The "Exchange Building" saw the General Assembly of South Carolina, starting on May 12th, 1788 and ending on May 23rd by ratifying the U.S. Constitution with 149 to 73 votes. In 1791, George Washington visited the city for a weel. From the balcony of the "Old Exchange", he took a speech to the citizens, and attended a ball here to his honor. In 1815 - the new and bigger "U.S. Custom House" was already completed - the postal administration moved in.
The Bilding has been damaged badly twice: in the Civil War (reconstruction until 1875) and by an earth quake in 1886. It was cloed in 1913 and sold to the state of South Carolina and the historical association "Daughters of the Revolution". On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the United States in 1976, it was renovated thoroughly. The rooms of the building can be booked for events.
The scenes of the presidential ball were filmed in the "Great Hall" on the upper floor, with 43 on 46 feet providing being room for 250 persons. The characteristical colum rows on all four sides support the ceiling socket and provide seclured spaces when a dance takes place on the open floor. The windows were dimmed by prop paintings, curtains and flags to create a night scene.
Old Exchange, 122 East Bay Street Google Maps
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Jefferson Davis' Presidential Office, Richmond
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Office of Confederate President Davis, outside, front room, presidential office, Orry's office |
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Movie: Davis' office, Richmond, VA, outside Real: St. Philips Church, 142 Church Street, Charleston
Movie: Davis' office, Richmond, VA, entrance Real: St. Philips Church, northern entry
Movie: Davis' office, Richmond, VA,fromt room Movie: Davis' office, Richmond, VA, presidential office
The governmental office
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As the outside view of the "White House of the Confederacy", the St. Philips Church in Charleston was used, that is being portrait with the associated Church Street in the chapter on Charleston. The colums to the right and the somewhat simple side entrance in fact matches the original pretty well (see below). The entrance is on the northern side of the church, directly under the steeple. The four colums at the entrace were disguised to a degree by the camera movements and the soldiers posted in front of them.
Church Street, St. Philips Church Google Maps
The inside rooms of Davis, Davis' assistant and Orry's office are not yet identified.
DrehortLocation Overview "Davis' Government Office Richmond"
Above: Presidential office and front. Below left: Orry's office. Below right: entry area.
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"The White House of the Confederacy"
The Museum of the Confederacy
Tel. (804) 649-1861
http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer
Visitors: Mon - Sat 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sun 12 noon to 5 p.m.
Admission to the museum $12
Historical: Davis' house in Civil War times Historical: use as school building, then museum
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Museum of the
Confederacy
Real: total view today
1201 East Clay Street,
History
1818 erected of a 2 story residence of the practitioner and banker Dr. John Brockenbrough
1857 remodeled for the new owner, great gardener Lewis Crenshaw, 3rd floor with rund-running flat roof added, noble interious
06/1861 aquired by the City of Richmond from Crenshaw for 42.000 Dollar to leave it to Davis, what Davis declined. The Confederate States then rents it from the city as living and working building ("Executive Mansion") of the President of the Confederate States of America
08/1861 moving-in of Jefferson Davis with his family, the house evolves as a center of political and social life
02.04.1865 abolished as a government building after Defeat of the Confederacy and the president and his government having fled
05/1865 used as troop base during occupation and reconstruction
1870 returned to the city of Richmond, furnishings auctioned off
1871 used as a school until 1894, new windows to the west side, roomes remodled as class rooms
Ende 1889 plans by the city to gutt the building and use the site for a new school building
1890 first attemps of the "Ladies Hollywood Memorial Association" (LMHA, one of the typical associations of female relatives of Civil War veterans), to use the building to preserve memoriblia around the Confederacy
03.06.1894 turned over to the LMHA (respectively it's commercial daughter)
22.02.1896 opened as "The Confederate Museum"
1960 Agreement to thoroughly remodelling, outsourcing weapons and the library, restauration the rooms in their historical appears, reopened in 1976 as "The Museum of the Confederacy"
06/1988 reopened after 10 years of conversion into the form of 1860, even with several original furnitures and decorations, outsourced things now in neighboring new building.
Today without greens and surrounded by high buildings in downtown Richmond.
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